Dave Osler's contention that the left's "decades-long failure to cohere a political organisation with any implantation in the social class it purports to represent has essentially given the BNP a free run" echoed thoughts I expressed in a comment here.

Are you serious? Do you really see a border fence as "apartheid?" The fence may be futile, it may the wrong answer to a problem, but it surely is NOT apartheid. And don't you think it's silly, crossing out "fence" and putting "wall," as that blogger does?

Robert Frost isn't appropriate to the border-discussion. That blog is dishonest, and so are most of the "fence" and "immigration" debates.

Shall countries NOT defend their borders? Everywhere but in the EU borders are defended, most more viciously than the US defends its borders.

I obviously failed in my intention to ironise (is that the right word?) Israel's security fence, which is ridiculously called an apartheid fence. My point - made far too under-handedly - was that if that is an apartheid fence, this is an apartheid fence. Does that make sense?